#Parquet Courts

NEWS ROUNDUPYoko Ono, A Tribe Called Quest and More

AudioFemme's news round up of the week featuring Yoko Ono, A Tribe Called Quest, and the oral history of Space Jam.

Emily Daly

NEWS ROUNDUPNew Tracks, New Kendrick, and SWSW

New Tracks By New York Artists First up is “Your Best American Girl” by Brooklyn’s Mitski. The song is from Puberty 2, which will be released via Dead Oceans in June. It’s a sorrowful track about living up to expectations, full of soaring highs and the squeal of feedback amongst quieter moments....

Emily Daly

NEWS ROUNDUPParquet Courts, Bernie Sanders, and Animal Collective

Parquet Courts Debut New Songs The Brooklyn-via-Texas punks performed “Dust” and “Outside” on WFUV, and also announced an upcoming album titled Human Performance. “Dust” has a loping, cowboy Western feel, spacing tendrils of guitar riffs between suffocating lyrics: “It comes through the window, it...

Emily Daly

LIVE REVIEWHonduras @ The Knitting Factory

Minutes before the band gets on stage, I watch the crowd come together. For some reason at Knitting Factory, it's always a mix of people you wouldn't imagine listening to the artists playing that night, trickling in from the bar or stumbling upon a cheap show with nothing else to do. Brooklyn's own...

Ysabella Monton

BEST OF 2014Best Tracks from NYC Bands

There were a lot of great songs released in 2014, and many came from bands who are from New York City (or, like many of us here, just currently call it home). Here are some of the year’s best tracks from the city that never sleeps. Ava Luna: “Plain Speech” from Electric Balloon (Western Vinyl,...

Emily Daly

A History of Siren Fest and 4Knots

The fourth annual 4Knots Music Festival is slated to wash ashore at South Street Seaport this Saturday, July 12th, and we couldn't be more excited. The festival, curated by The Village Voice, gets better each year, with Dinosaur Jr., Mac DeMarco, Re-TROS, Dead Stars, Those Darlins, Speedy Ortiz,...

Lindsey Rhoades

ALBUM REVIEWParquet Courts “Sunbathing Animal”

Following their highly acclaimed 2012 album Light Up Gold, Brooklyn-based punks Parquet Courts delve into something more disembodied and fragmented in Sunbathing Animal, out June 3 via What’s Your Rupture? and Mom + Pop Music. Their sound is essentially the same – still plenty of the lively guitars...

Teta Alim

TRACK REVIEWParquet Courts "Sunbathing Animal"

Parquet Courts, besides being the only (I think) garage-punk quartet to ever show Ridgewood, Queens the limelight it deserves in “Stoned and Starving,” are both from and intensely representative of Brooklyn's DIY culture. They keep it simple and keep it snotty, braiding basement-classic two-chord...

Carena Liptak

Lindsey's SXSW 2014 Rundown

Another year of South by Southwest has come and gone. It was a landmark year for us at AudioFemme, as we hosted our first ever SXSW showcases. It was certainly a learning experience, to say the least. Just as we have in years past, we met a wide array of musicians, promoters, industry folks, and...

Lindsey Rhoades

AudioFemme's Best of 2013

From elaborate roll-outs to surprise releases, 2013 was a banner year for comebacks, break-outs, break-ups, and overnight sensations. The fact that the most oblique content could cause rampant controversy to reverberate through the blogosphere turned every song into a story and made every story...

Lindsey Rhoades

EP REVIEWParquet Courts: Tally All The Things That You Broke

It’s been a little over a year since Brooklyn’s very own Parquet Courts gave us their debut LP Light Up Gold, a release that has garnered a considerable amount of attention and approval from DIY enthusiasts and mainstream music publications alike. Since then, the band has built up quite an...

Nayeli Portillo